Very Easy True Stories: A Picture-Based First Reader
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A three-year-old boy falls 18 feet into
a gorilla cage and is saved by a mother - a mother gorilla, that is!A
waitress finds a lottery ticket for a tip, instead of cash. And she
wins six million dollars! Fourteen very low-level stories of high-level
interest?humorous, poignant, astounding?and all true! Selected from
newspapers and magazines, and adapted for the beginning student, the
stories are told as simply as possible - exclusively in the present
tense. First, students see a series of captioned pictures so the
meaning is clear. Then, students read the story in text form for real
reading practice. Finally, students do exercises following each story
to develop very basic reading skills as well as build pronunciation,
spelling, and vocabulary proficiency. VERY EASY TRUE STORIES is an
ideal first text for students with little or no experience with
EnglishThe universal appeal of these real-life, human-interest stories
engages beginning ESL students with humor, poignancy, or astonishment,
and helps them to become fluent readers
